In 1944, the city of Durham, N.C., was riveted by the killing of a Black soldier – and the trial of the white bus driver who shot him. The soldier is now being honored with a historical marker. In ...
VICKSBURG, Miss. -- Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and '50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...
They all expected to be promoted the next morning. The African-American graduates would join the military’s tiny, black elite: Fewer than 1 percent of black soldiers in the Army were officers in 1942, ...
We want our future generations to know that whatever happened, we have overcome, and there’s a part for everybody,” council member says.
After the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868, many Black men enlisted in the military as a way to earn income and respect in U.S. society. Despite facing many barriers within the military, ...
A worker at Fort Sam Houston Cemetery in Texas prepares new headstones for the graves of Black service members executed following the 1917 Houston racial riots. (Defense Department) Veterans Affairs ...
The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same Kinsey Gidick An 1812 illustration of a private from the ...
VICKSBURG, Miss.VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school ...
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